An Entity-based Database User Interface

Summary: Proposes an entity-based UI for casual, interactive data access, shifting focus from relations to entities and their connections. Demonstrates a PDB (ZOG) where entity-centric display, views, and knowledge-based assistance support browsing and complement traditional query interfaces. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2191
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1980
Pagerank: 0.00011372804
Overall Rank: 1,275 | 91.26%
DOI: 10.1145/582250.582273

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. R. G. G. Cattell (Carnegie Mellon University; Xerox Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{cattell_sigmod80,
        title = {{An Entity-based Database User Interface}},
        author = {Cattell, R. G. G.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '80},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/582250.582273},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/582250.582273},
        year = {1980}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 9 of 9 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
703	TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser	1982	VLDB	0.0001485124
1,412	GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration	1982	VLDB	0.00010849986
2,380	OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode	1990	SIGMOD	8.6609083e-05
2,480	Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface	1984	VLDB	8.5201824e-05
2,483	ISIS: Interface for a Semantic Information System	1985	SIGMOD	8.5177061e-05
4,257	Lessons from a "Living In a Database" Graphical Query Interface	1984	SIGMOD	6.8017742e-05
5,547	Beyond Relations: A Case for Elevating to the Entity-Relationship Abstraction	2025	CIDR	6.1790655e-05
13,225	NetBook - A Data Model to Support Knowledge Exploration	1985	VLDB	5.093636e-05
13,238	A Personal Data Manager	1984	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
589	On The Semantics Of The Relational Data Model	1975	SIGMOD	0.00016066932
824	The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications	1978	SIGMOD	0.00013791986

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